Re: A call to chair sessions at SHARE

2013-06-14 Thread Shane G
On Sat, Jun 15th, 2013 at 7:52 AM, "Jagos, Brian V" wrote: > Hi All, > > It is that time of year again this is a call to chair SHARE session. Hadn't realised the schedule was out. Ugh - now I remember why the various streams have so much trouble getting volunteers for chairs. It'

A call to chair sessions at SHARE

2013-06-14 Thread Jagos, Brian V
Hi All, It is that time of year again this is a call to chair SHARE session. History In 1955, just two years after the release of IBM's first computer, a handful of the earliest IT professionals collaborated to form SHARE. Thus came into being the world's first organization of

Re: More words on "The Virtualization Cookbook" Redbook residency

2013-06-14 Thread Leland Lucius
On 6/13/2013 2:40 PM, Rick Troth wrote: Or maybe a compiled smiucv should also be on the Downloads page? ... I'll talk to Leland about shipping a prebuilt one, though -- no need to force a toolchain install if not needed. CORRECT. And for "external facing" or "cloud" guests, it's important

Re: Appropriate hipersocket MFS size for use with SAP Apps Servers

2013-06-14 Thread Leland Lucius
On 6/13/2013 2:28 PM, Ron Foster wrote: Anyone have any experience running SAP apps servers under z/vm with a larger than 8k MTU size? We run with a 16K MFS and an 8K MTU. Like you, we use a single hipersocket CHPID. However, we're still on z/OS 1.12 with plans to upgrade to z/OS 1.13 sooni

Re: Appropriate hipersocket MFS size for use with SAP Apps Servers

2013-06-14 Thread David Boyes
> 3. One of the things that the TCP IP folks want us to do on the hardware side > is to increase the maximum frame size to 64k. for this hipersocket. > > 4. This would normally increase the MTU size to 56k for the hipersocket. > > 5. If I remember properly the 56k value would exceed the SAP recom